End of the Road (TV story)

End of the Road (TV story)

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End of the Road
Featuring:	Captain Jack Harkness Gwen Cooper Rex Matheson Esther Drummond Rhys Williams Oswald Danes
Main enemy:	Brian Friedkin Charlotte Willis Blue-Eyed Man Oswald Danes Wilson Jilly Kitzinger
Main setting:	Dallas, Texas Colasanto Residence, Nevada Langley, Virginia Swansea, Wales Washington, D.C. 2011
Key crew
Writers:	Ryan Scott (story) Ryan Scott and Jane Espenson (teleplay)
Director:	Gwyneth Horder-Payton
Producer:	Kelly A Manners
Release details
Release number:	39
Premiere broadcast:	26 August 2011

End of the Road (TV story) was the eighth episode of Torchwood: Miracle Day.

Synopsis

Jack faces a showdown with a man he thought was long since dead. But while Rex takes extreme action, is it too late to prevent the collapse of society?

Plot

The Torchwood team arrive at the Colasanto Residence, where it is revealed that the woman who brought Jack there is Angelo Colasanto's granddaughter. She explains that since meeting Jack, Angelo has devoted his life to making immortality possible. Angelo himself is now aged and infirm, lying on a bed connected to life-support machines.

Angelo's granddaughter, Olivia Colasanto explains that the three men who witnessed Jack's resurrection represented three different families, who were in some way responsible for the miracle. However, when Esther tries to trace them, there is no record of them.

The CIA enter the Colasanto residence, having tracked Rex through a phone call he made to Vera Juarez's brother. Rex confronts Friedkin, getting a confession out of him that he is working for the families, which he transmits through the contact lenses.

Allen Shapiro arrests Friedkin, but he triggers a bomb he is carrying, killing him and Olivia. Rex and Esther are once more allowed to work for the CIA.

While speaking to Angelo, Jack removes his breathing apparatus and kisses him. This causes the life support machines to start beeping frantically, and Angelo dies, leaving the CIA attempting to figure out how he died.

Esther spots that the flooring under Angelo's bed is higher than the rest of the floor. After investigation, Jack states that it is a null field, cancelling out the morphic field that is causing the miracle. Jack warns that any state with knowledge of this alien technology could cause catastrophic disaster, since a null field can conceal mass weapons, among other things.

Jack begs Rex and Esther to get him out of there. As they do so, Jack is shot and Esther spotted, leaving Esther driving away with a critically wounded Jack in the back seat.

Cast

• Captain Jack Harkness - John Barrowman
• Gwen Cooper - Eve Myles
• Rex Matheson - Mekhi Phifer
• Esther Drummond - Alexa Havins
• Rhys Williams - Kai Owen
• Oswald Danes - Bill Pullman
• Olivia Colasanto - Nana Visitor
• Sarah Drummond - Candace Brown
• Mary Cooper - Sharon Morgan
• Charlotte Willis - Marina Benedict
• Allen Shapiro - John de Lancie
• Brian Friedkin - Wayne Knight
• Jilly Kitzinger - Lauren Ambrose
• Noah Vickers - Paul James
• Blue-Eyed Man - Teddy Sears
• Claire - Megan Duffy
• Shawnie - Constance Wu
• Agent Baylor - David Desantos
• Wilson - Nayo K Wallace
• Angelo Colasanto - Uncredited

Crew

Created by Russell T Davies

Executive Producers   Russell T Davies, Julie Gardner and Jane Tranter

Co-executive producers   Vlad Wolynetz and Jane Espenson

Written by Ryan Scott & Jane Espenson story by Ryan Scott	Produced by Kelly A Manners	Directed by Gwyneth Horder-Payton	Director of Photography Nate Goodman	Production Designer Gregory Melton	Visual Effects Lion Visual Effects, Inc.
Key Make-up Artist Todd McIntosh	Casting by John Frank Levey, CSA and Melanie Burgess	Score Murray Gold assistant composer Stu Kennedy	Costume Designer Shawna Trpcic	Edited by Sara Mineo	Key Hair Stylist Susan Boyd
Science Advisor - John Sotos, M.D.

General production staff Production Executive - Shelley Stevens Associate Producer - Skip Schoolnik Location Manager - Brad Bemis Unit Production Manager - Robert D. Nellans Production Accountant - Vince Robinette First Assistant Accountant - Bethany Andriuzzo Tax Credit Accountant - Jonathan Ross Transportation Coordinator - Heath Culp Camera and lighting department 1st Assistant Director - Jefferson Kibbee 2nd Assistant Director - Matt Buckler Script Supervisor - Anne Melville Camera Operator - Jeff Greeley Key Grip - Isaac Chee Chief Lighting Technician - Don Mosley	Art department Set Decorator - Natali Pope Set Designer - Arthur Chadwick Property Master - Eric Bates Construction Coordinator - Chris Forster Computer Graphics - Twisted Media	Make-up and prosthetics Special Make-up Effects - Greg Nicotero and Howard Berger General post-production staff Post-production Supervisor - Peter M. Tassler Post-production Assistant - Kris Saintsing High Definition Post-Production - Modern Videofilm, Inc. Special and visual effects Visual FX Supervisor - Michael D. Leone Sound Production Sound Mixer - Julian Howarth Supervising Sound Editor - Walt Newman Co-supervisor - Ken Young Music Editor - Tom Trafalski Re-recording Mixers - Dan Hiland, Gary Rogers Post-Production Sound - Warner Bros.

Not every person who worked on this adventure was credited. The absence of a credit for a position doesn't necessarily mean the job wasn't required. The information above is based solely on observations of the actual end credits of the episodes as broadcast, and does not relay information from IMDB or other sources.
The Starz broadcast carried a final credit of "Originally Developed and Produced by BBC Cymru Wales". The BBC One broadcast says, instead, "BBC Worldwide Productions for BBC Cymru Wales and STARZ Originals".

References

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Story notes

• Nana Visitor (Olivia Colasanto) and John de Lancie (Allen Shapiro) are both best known for their roles in the Star Trek franchise. They appeared together in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Season One episode "Q-Less", first broadcast in February 1993, in which they played Major Kira Nerys and Q respectively. This means that Visitor and de Lancie have appeared together in spin-offs of both Doctor Who and Star Trek.

Ratings

• UK:4.64 million

Myths

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Filming locations

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Production errors

If you'd like to talk about narrative problems with this story — like plot holes and things that seem to contradict other stories — please go to this episode's discontinuity discussion.

• Esther hangs up the phone after Rex gives her the names of the three families, but the call somehow stays connected.
• When Brian Friedkin interrogates Rex, his voice isn't turned into the generic male voice by the Eye-5 contact lenses.

Continuity

• Jack mentions Ianto when he is talking to Angelo, asking him whether he saw Ianto while watching Jack, and speculates about whether the two would have liked each other or not.

Home video releases

This episode will be released on DVD and Blu-ray on 14 November 2011, alongside the other nine episodes.

Footnotes